South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy / / Thiven Reddy.
"Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa's post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely sh...
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Superior document: | Africa now |
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Place / Publishing House: | London, England : : Zed Books,, 2015. [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Africa now (Zed Books)
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Notes: | "Published ... in association with the Nordic Africa Institute ... Uppsala, Sweden"--Title page verso. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Modernity : civil society, political society and the vulnerable
- The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy
- The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy
- The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism
- Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony
- Elites, masses and democratic change
- Crisis of the national modern : democracy, the state and ANC dominance
- Conclusion.